Close PCSX2 after ending emulation?

[hellbringer616]

Is there a way to autoclose PCSX2 after you end emulation? using the --nogui option still leaves a rogue PCSX2 process open after ending emulation

[Blyss Sarania]

ROGUE PCSX2 NINJA PROCESS!

Hmm, I'm not sure. I'm guessing since normally closing GSdx or pressing ESC only suspends emulation that with nogui you are leaving the PCSX2 suspended like that. Try ALT F4.

[willkuer]

you close by using ESC and there is still a process running? Is the log console open?


That would make the whole nogui idea senseless or?

[Blyss Sarania]

I tried ALT F4 myself and it completely kills the process for me, so try that.

And what he means is normally when running PCSX2(with GUI) if you press ESC it drops you back to the GUI and pauses emulation. This seems to still happen with NOGUI except now there is no gui to finish the closing. But ALT F4 seems to do it.

[willkuer]

Still it is not a good idea to let an invisible gui process run in the background. Other users might not have observed this but suffer from memory consumption or whatever if the process is not closed correctly.

Well third bug in a short time detected....

avih... where are you?

[Blyss Sarania]

It's not so much a bug as an oversight. The behavior is the normal expected behavior in GUI mode - it just needs to be caught in nogui mode and dealt with properly.

Maybe make an issue on github.

[vsub]

Probably happens when something goes wrong...ZOE2 at certain places with mtvu enabled and in software mode.

Did you tried the LilyPad options
Send escape on window close
Exit emulator on window close

[shinra358]

While waiting for github fix, autohotkey would work.
If pcsx2 window is gone and gui is gone and process is still up, close process.
I would make it for ya but my personal pc is still in the shop.

[vsub]

It will be little complicated with autohotkey if he is running every single game by using command lines.
He must create a script for every game or create a gui(containing the game list)that will load the game and add such feature.

This is a simple script(no gui)

Code:

#NoTrayIcon
Run,place the path to pcsx2 and the command lines
WinWaitActive,ahk_exe pcsx2.exe
WinWaitClose,ahk_exe pcsx2.exe
Sleep,2000
DetectHiddenWindows,on
Process,Exist,pcsx2.exe
If ErrorLevel != 0
WinKill,ahk_exe pcsx2.exe

[shinra358]

You can do it by getting the class of the window instead and the class for the gui and if they don't exist, close the process. It doesn't need to be game specific
Oh, and all that would be in a settimer which would check as long as the pcsx2 is active.